The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.